Travels With A Circus

Katie Hickman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2009 | New edition
Flamingo (Verlag)
978-0-00-710899-2 (ISBN)

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An account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of a Mexican travelling circus. Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus - big top, clowns, elephant and all - where cheap, torn materials are transformed for a night into glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world. At first, as a foreigner, she was on the outskirts, but she soon became "La Gringa Estrella", a performer in her own right and adopted sister to the Bell's family. In this work, Katie Hickman describes her epic year-long journey through this extraordinary and bizarrely beautiful country. Riding elephants and playing clowns as part of the show, she uses the lessons of the circus as a focus to look deep into the complex psyche of modern Mexixo, and into the very nature of "magic" itself.

Katie Hickmanwas born into a diplomatic family in 1960 and has spent more than twenty-five years living abroad in Europe, the Far East and Latin America.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.10.2009
Zusatzinfo	(reprint from previous edition)
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	131 x 196 mm
Gewicht	262 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10	0-00-710899-0 / 0007108990
ISBN-13	978-0-00-710899-2 / 9780007108992
Zustand	Neuware